The Health Policy Research Consortium has started a new YouTube video series exploring health disparities with leading health equity experts. Part 1 features Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). You can view it here.

"In the wake of mounting overdoses and deaths from the opioid-addiction crisis sweeping across the U.S., drugmakers are racing to come up with safer painkillers. Companies are highly motivated to create alternatives to the $4 billion opioid market. The federal government is cracking down on lax prescriptions that contribute to many thousands of deaths a year and has started to block the...

"The Science Soapbox team paired up with the Rockefeller University Outreach Lab's Lab Out Loud [LOL] afterschool program to host a LIVE show starring Dr. Mandë Holford. A longtime friend of the show, Dr. Holford is a Professor of Chemical Biology at Hunter College, with an appointment at the American Museum of Natural History. Her work centers on studying the venom of killer snails to find...

From the press release " Dr. Regina Miranda, Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Youth Cognition and Suicide at Hunter College, has been awarded a Support of Competitive Research Advancement Award from the National Institutes of Health (totaling $1.56 million over 4 years),...

"When Olorunseun Ogunwobi, MD, PhD, an associate professor of biology at Hunter College and adjunct assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine needed African-American men to participate in his research on how genetics might play a role in prostate cancer disparities, he reached out to a...

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The Center for Translational and Basic Research (CTBR) for Addressing Health Disparities and Improving Health Outcomes (formerly The Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function/Gene Center) is dedicated to enhancing infrastructure to support basic and translational/clinical research, and to reducing minority health disparities. The Center contains a cadre of 19 biomedical researchers focusing on the areas of Cancer, Neuro/Behavior, and Disease Prevention using telehealth e-platforms to serve the underserved populations.

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The CTBR is supported by a Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (8 G12 MD007599) of the National Institutes of Health, the Weill Cornell Medical College Clinical & Translational Science Center (2UL1TR000457-06) of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.